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Opportunities for Preschoolers
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Summer and School-Year Day School Programs
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The Fourth Church Day School has a few remaining openings for our 2017-2018 preschool classes. For details about the classes, which begin in September, contact
Kathy Hager (
312.640.2579).
This summer we are also offering a new opportunity: two weeklong summer Day School programs for children three to five years old:
Tuesday, June 6 to Friday, June 9
Monday, June 19 to Friday, June 23
with both classes meeting from 9:00 to 11:45 a.m.
Families can sign up for one or both summer weeks. For more information, contact
Kathy.
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Change Your Life by Managing Your Mind
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This June our Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being invites you to spend a day learning to expand your repertoire of responses to life's challenges by utilizing the highly effective and easily accessible strategies of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).
ACT is a fresh approach that offers concrete strategies to help manage and reduce struggle, avoidance, and being "stuck." On Saturday, June 10 you'll have opportunity to learn specific ACT applications to enrich your day-to-day living in ways that will surprise you.
For details or to register for this year's annual one-day Replogle Center conference, which will be held in Buchanan Chapel, call the Center at 312.787.8425.
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Featuring Works by French Composers
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This coming Friday evening, May 19, enjoy choral works by French composers as the Fourth Church Choral Society presents their spring concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary.
Freewill donations will be received at the door.
Time:
Friday, May 19
7:30 p.m.
Place:
Sanctuary
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Restored Ceiling Canvases from the Sanctuary
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Have you ever wished you could get an up-close look at the magnificent artwork on our Sanctuary ceiling?
You now have opportunity to do so, thanks to the wonderful work of Restoration Division, which has restored the six ceiling canvases removed from the South Balcony in 2015 in order to make a sound opening for the organ chamber. (You might not have even noticed they were removed, as they were replaced with replicas printed on sound-transferable mesh.)
On Thursday the restored murals, originally painted by Frederic Clay Bartlett, were hung in the Gignilliat Commons--where they will be on permanent display--103 years to the week after they were part of the Sanctuary dedication in 1914.
Stop by and take a look!
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Encore with Robert Chen
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A Benefit for the Center for Life and Learning
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Robert Chen--Chicago Symphony Orchestra concertmaster--and his children, Noah and Beatrice, return to Encore again this year, joined by cellist Gabriel Martins, to offer a delightful string quartet performance.
Their June 3 program, which will begin at 5:00 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel, will feature selections from Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Baptiste Barrière, and Zoltán Kodály, among others.
Afterwards we'll gather in the Commons for a cocktail reception, all as part of Encore, the annual benefit to support the Center for Life and Learning, our learning community for adults sixty and more.
Time:
Saturday, June 3
5:00 p.m.
Place:
Buchanan Chapel and Gignilliat Commons
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Needed: Summer Day Volunteers
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Art and Classroom Assistants; Field Trip Chaperones
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In just over a month, the Gratz Center will come alive with 100 Chicago Lights
Summer Day students participating in six weeks of daily academic and arts programming complemented by recreation opportunities and field trips.
To make this June 26-August 3 program possible, we need volunteers to assist us in our academic and art classrooms and as chaperones on our field trips. We're also looking for people to share their special talents by leading a class or two.
We'll be offering a one-session volunteer orientation at two different times: Wednesday, May 31 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 4G and Wednesday, June 7 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in Room 4G.
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Out of Many, One
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A Statement against Bigotry
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In this Sunday's
Chicago Tribune, you will see a two-thirds-page advertisement featuring a statement against bigotry that has been signed by more than 150 individuals and representatives of various faith backgrounds.
The Fourth Church Session is one of the signatories to this statement of "
Out of Many, One," calling for people to stand up against words and acts of hatred and injustice and to celebrate that we are all beloved children of God who "
refuse to allow our differences to be used as vessels of hatred or targets of oppression. Our diversity is our strength."
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Worship This Week
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8:00 a.m.
Communion
Rocky Supinger,
Associate Pastor
9:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Baptisms | Sunday School children in worship
Shannon J. Kershner,
Pastor
4:00 p.m.
Jazz Communion
Abbi Heimach-Snipes,
Pastoral Resident
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Concerts at Fourth Church
All concerts are free unless ticket information is noted.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Chicago Ensemble
7:30 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Tickets available through Chicago Ensemble
Friday, May 19, 2017
Michelle Wynton, violinist
Keiko Alexander, pianist
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Fourth Church Choral Society
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Freewill donations received at the door
Friday, May 26, 2017
John W. W. Sherer, organist
(Organist and Director of Music at Fourth Church)
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
A complete concert schedule is available online.
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Volunteer at Fourth Church
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There are several ways to get involved in the mission and ministry of Fourth Church. See below for details!
Current Volunteer Needs
Men are needed to serve as Shower Ministry greeters
on Tuesdays from 1:15 to 4:00 p.m., on a rotating schedule at the church. For details, contact Robert Crouch.
An Urban Youth Ministry care team is being formed to provide meals and hospitality to visiting youth groups and UYM staff.
For details, contact Rocky Supinger.
Individually wrapped snacks such as granola bars, applesauce cups, and bags of pretzels--a total of 3,600 snack items a month!--are needed to help fill the nearly 1,200 sack lunches distributed monthly by Fourth Church Meals Ministry. Ensuring we have sufficient snacks is an ongoing challenge. For a list of snacks currently needed, visit the Fourth Church Meals Ministry cart in Anderson Hall during Coffee Hour. Donations can be dropped off at the cart or, during the week, at the church reception desk. Please mark donations "Snacks for Sacks."
Hygiene kit materials and funds for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and Church World Services. For details, contact Anne Ellis.
To sign up for volunteer opportunities or to learn more about them, stop by Coffee Hour on Sunday morning or email Robert Crouch, Director of Volunteer Ministry.
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